July 6, 1935
THE TABLET u 4 W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w
DUM VO B ia GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTI8 VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. i66. No. 4965.
London, J u l y 6 , 1 9 3 5 .
Sixpence.
R e g is tered at the General P o st Off ic e as a New s p a p e r .
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New s and No t e s ................ 1 Mexico Again .............. 5 Due in Altum .............. 5 Eden— Aden 6 A Warwickshire Priory . . . 6 Coming E ve n t s ................ 7 R e v i e w s :
The Economic Debate . . . 8 “ Chops and Tomato Sauce ” 8
A Flower of Grace . . . 8 The Flight to Varennes 9 Books Received
CONTENTS
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New Books and Music . . . 10 St. John of Rochester and
St. Thomas M o r e .............. 10 The Grail Exhibition . . . 12 The Letters of Hilarion—
X I ..................................... 13 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ......................... 17 Thomas More’s D an c in g ... 18 The Eucharistic Congress at
E d in b u rg h ......................... 19 E t Cæ t e r a ............................ 20
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The Converts’ Aid Society 21 The President of St.
Edmund’s .............. 22 From The Tablet of Long
A g o .................................... 22 Ob it u ary ............................ 22 Canon Carton de Wiart . . . 22 Ordinations ......................... 22 Orb i s T errarum :
England .......................... 23 Ireland ......................... 24 Albania ......................... 24 Austria ......................... 24 Belgium ......................... 24
Or b is T errarum :
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Canada ......................... 24 China ......................... 25 Czechoslovakia .............. 25 France ......................... 25 Germany ......................... 26 Poland ......................... 26 Spain 26 Switzerland 26 U.S.A..........................................28 E p is c o p a l E ngagements 28 Guild of SS. Felix and
Edmund ......................... 28 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 28 Ch e s s ........................................ 28
N O T A N D A
Bad news from Mexico. The incorrigibility o f President Cardenas (p. 5).
Abyssinia, England, Italy and Peace. Mr. Eden’ s offer o f a port on the Gulf o f Aden (p. 6).
Stonyhurst’ s Great Academies. The centenary o f the consecration o f the College church (p. 13).
Further celebrations in honour o f St. John o f Rochester and St. Thomas More. Devotional rejoicings in London, Lancashire, and Yorkshire (pp. 10-12). _
Edinburgh’ s Eucharistic Congress. H ow the faithful in the Scots capital carried through their full programme in spite o f anti-Catholic threats and demonstrations (p. 19).
The Rt. Rev. Canon B ickford, President o f St. Edmund’s, made a Domestic Prelate to His H o liness (p. 22).
A Baptist minister on the Lloyd George Manifesto (p. 2).
From Montargis to Princethorpe. A chapter o f conventual history (p. 6).
The past year’s work o f the Converts’ A id Society (p. 21).
NEWS AND NOTES nDO-DAY, Saturday, is the fourth centenary o f the martyrdom of St. Thomas More who, on July 6, 1535 (a Tuesday) climbed the steps o f a rickety scaffold on Tower Hill and there died " merrily ” for the faith of the Holy Catholic Church. During many weeks we have been reading about the processes and decrees and ceremonies o f this man’s canonisation and about the pilgrimages, tridua and sermons in his memory. Now it becomes more than ever our duty to pay him the honours o f imitation. Like him, we must obey the rulers who are set over us
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and must serve to the best o f our ability the temporal society in which it has pleased Divine Providence to place us ; but, like him, we must not allow the secular powers which, in our own days, assume the form of State Totalitarianism, to outgrow their lawful sphere and to cramp our loyalty to Almighty God. Although it does not come to us as a Tyburn rope or a Tower Hill axe, the call o f martyrdom, in the word’s old sense o f bearing witness, sounds in the ears of every Catholic, without exception. We have to witness against countless evil tendencies of the times and to shed the blood o f our pride before scoffers who will taunt us with narrowmindedness, bigotry and superstition.
About one-third o f the men and women entitled to do so recorded their votes in the " National Peace Ballot,” organised by the League of Nations Union. We see no reason for withdrawing the criticism we have often passed upon this enterprise. The giant posters which led simple folk to believe that the Ballot would “ decide ” Peace or War were discreditable to those who issued them ; and the spreading o f the Ballot over six months, during which the international situation often changed, meant that the voters were not all voting in the same circumstances. It is clear, however, that British public opinion still supports the League of Nations. Indeed, there is so much confidence in Geneva that 6,000,000 persons have expressed themselves in favour of military measures, if necessary, against an aggressor. The false doctrine that every kind of war is wicked, not excepting wars which are purely defensive, is held b y such a small minority o f our people that we may fairly ask these peace-at-any-price people to cease putting themselves forward as spokesmen o f Christian England.
One o f the countless benefits for which we have to thank our prudent Bishops is the detachment of the Catholic body, as such, from party politics. When a General Election brings to the forefront
